How it started...

Mortimor Band

The band Mortimor was founded in July 2012. Fedor was learning how to sing and play guitar on his own which later inspired him to start the band. Dušan (Caco) was Fedor’s classmate who was already interested in drums at that time. They sometimes got together and played some covers at the places which belonged to their friends. In April, Fedor asked Dušan if he would like to be a drummer in the band. He said yes. Fedor bought their first drums and so they started to practice at Fedor’s place. However, they decided that it would be better to fully concentrate on the music only after they all would graduate from high school. In July 2012, they moved to their first practice room, and started to think about the name of the band. Fedor and his brother loved to watch the movie with Bad Spencer, where Fedor heard the name “Mortimor” for the first time. The whole thing was about the funny scene with Mortimor; and consequently just out of nothing, Fedor’s brother started to call him Mortimor, Morty. Since then, this name has become very popular among the guys. Later, when they couldn’t come up with some proper name of the band, they suddenly said “Mortimor” ! Fedor started to make his own songs and the band was continuously developing. In September 2012, Martin (Plevič) has joined the band replacing his electric guitar with a bass guitar because of the band. After this, the crew is complete and ready to focus on their creation.

Fedor Jánošík – Guitar, lead vocals

He was born on October 20th, 1992. Since his childhood, Fedor was very hyperactive and disobedient. Regarding his school times, he wasn’t really the most obedient one, and he also kept getting bad grades and warnings from teachers. When he was 6 years old, he received his first guitar; however, he didn’t really care. As a child, he was playing soccer for a few years. Beside soccer, he was also doing skateboarding which he later replaced with freestyle biking. Eventually, soccer stopped being exciting for him, and as a 15 years old boy, he wanted to do only freestyle. At that time, he met Dušan for the first time. When Fedor turned 16, he belonged to the best riders within Czech and Slovak republic. Fedor has always loved music. Everywhere he went and rode a bike, he was always accompanied by music. After he gave up doing freestyle, he started to learn how to play acoustic guitar. Later, he bought his first electric guitar Jolana Diamant brand, and started to learn how to sing as well. When he was 19, he decided to start his own band.

Dušan Božík (Caco) - drumsHe was born on September 8th, 1992. As a child, Dušan played on the piano but he mostly preffered sport. Dušan a.k.a Caco has been doing various sports since his childhood. He used to play ice-hockey, soccer, tennis but he eventually finished with all of this. He started to do freestyle biking which however stopped being interesting for him too. He later did freestyle on a scooter until the moment he encountered drums. As 18 years old, he started to pay attention to the drums in various songs. When he was 19, he received his first drum sticks from his friend who was a drummer. He liked drums so much that he used to practice basically on everything he had around him. He also practiced drums on the mobile application which was later replaced with the real drums.

Martin Pleva (Plevič) - bass guitar, vocalsHe was born on October 16th, 1991. Martin a.k.a. Plevič didn’t have such an exciting life from the beginning. He occasionally played soccer and rode a bike with his friends. As 14 years old, he started to actively engage himself in music, and as 15 years old, he started to learn how to play electric guitar. When he was 16, he wanted to get the attention of girls so he decided to start a band with his friends. However, the band was progressively declining and when Plevič turned 20; Fedor asked him if he wants to play on a bass guitar in his band. Although Martin wasn’t really interested in bass guitar, he was quite curious; therefore, one day he went practicing with the band. Right after the first song he said: “This is the kind of music I want to do! I’m in guys!”. He then found his first bass guitar Jolana, and he started to learn how to play on it.